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Damon hasn’t fallen in love often, in his very long life, but when he falls, he falls hard; and he mourned Enzo for decades. They’d imagined getting out together, touching each other in ways the bars between them had never allowed, they’d fallen in love touching fingertips. Five years they’d been in love, and that doesn’t go away. Besides, he and Damon… he’s always know it wouldn’t last. Couldn’t last.

So when Enzo came back, Alaric had waited for Damon to stray. And Damon hadn’t. And then he’d died.

Damon had mourned him. Worse than Alaric could ever have imagined. He’d been pulled to Damon’s side dozens of times a day, watched him drink alone until he could barely walk, and it’s sad to think that it took that much to make Alaric realize Damon had loved him, but there you have it.

It hadn’t been a surprise when Damon and Enzo found themselves shifting into each other’s orbit. Alaric had watched, and he’d been mostly relieved. It had always been clear that Damon didn’t do well alone.

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Alaric and Damon drink from the bottle in the high school car park. It’s a brief reprieve from death, but it feels good to be bumping shoulders for however long they’ve got.

“Things seem good,” Alaric says, carefully. “Between you and Enzo.”

Damon startles, and looks at the ground, and then back up to Alaric. “Yeah.”

“Don’t get me wrong, Damon, I’m happy for you. I didn’t want you to be alone.”

The kiss is an accident, but there’s so much heat in it that for a moment, Alaric thinks the gods might just let him stay.

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Alaric gets to know Enzo while Damon is dead. (They take turns at this. Being dead.) They grate on each other’s nerves, initially, but Alaric grows fond of him. He’s always had a knack with prickly people, and Enzo has a sense of humor which is at time understated and at times so rude and brash Alaric can’t help but be amused. And they miss Damon, and it’s easier to miss him together than alone, sharing stupid stories back and forth. It’s Enzo who teaches Alaric to fee from the vein, without killing anyone, and it’s Enzo that Alaric calls wen it’s four in the morning and his head won’t quiet down.

The sex is accidental. First time, anyway.

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And then Damon comes home.

First few days are a complete shitstorm, between the kidnappings and the hunters, but these things are cyclical. Damon moves in with Alaric because there are not a whole heap of options, and Mystic Falls is out of the question. Enzo doesn’t move in so much as he just never leaves. They’re awkward until Enzo remembers that he is the (un)living embodiment of physical affection, and Alaric gets home from work one evening to find them both half-dressed and dozing on the couch. Neither of them move when he opens the door, they just look up, a little sheepish.

“Uh, hi,” he says, a knot forming in his stomach as he closes the door behind him. He gets it. Damon mourned Enzo for decades. He goes straight to the kitchen and pours himself a large glass of the first thing that he finds in the nearly-bare pantry. His hands are shaking. Heartbreak, he figures, but it’s okay.

“Ric.”

Alaric turns around, and they’re both hanging over the back of the couch, looking like the predators they are. Damon beckons him with a finger, and Enzo winks.

It doesn’t happen very often, getting what you want. Alaric puts the glass down. Damon’s hair looks like birds have been nesting in it, and Enzo has the exact fucked-out expression Alaric has been falling asleep to three times a week for the last several months.

Alaric licks his lips, and looks from Damon to Enzo.

Alaric killed a person for the first time when he was seventeen. What was interesting about it was that it was absolutely unremarkable, and later at dinner when his parents asked what he’d done that day, it wasn’t even the first thing that came to his mind. He was very nearly caught, though, and after that he was meticulously careful.

He caught Damon’s attention in his mid-twenties, when Damon watched him stalk a man for an entire week before luring him away, drugging him and dispatching him. For Damon it was love at first sight. Alaric wanted nothing to do with him - until he saw the fangs for the first time. He begged Damon to turn him. Damon resisted for two minutes and sixteen seconds. 

Forty years later, with a kill count beyond any serial killer in American history and still so much in love, they caught the attention of a young FBI Agent, Lorenzo, who had joined law enforcement to stave off his own dark urges. Enzo put together enough evidence to put them behind bars, if, k’know, it was possible to arrest and hold a couple of very strong vampires who never denied themselves anything. They turned him and staged his apartment to look like a burglary.

He was hard to get rid of, but they became very fond of him, and eventually decided three was probably a party.

and the soundtrack? It was glorious, I feel like I can finish any project while listening to it! Charlize and Tom did such an impressive job, I think this movie will bring a revolution to the action genre that was basically all CGI until MM Fury Road